The Spear
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The Spear is a 1978 novel by British author James Herbert dealing with Nazi occultism and the Holy Lance.
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Plot summary
The book deals with a neo-Nazi cult in Britain and an international conspiracy which includes a right-wing US general and a sinister arms dealer, and their obsession with and through the occult with resurrecting Heinrich Himmler.
Court case
In an earlier version of the The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail/The Da Vinci Code lawsuit,[1] Trevor Ravenscroft sued James Herbert [2] claiming the novel infringed on his 1973 non-fiction book The Spear of Destiny.[3] Herbert declined to pay Ravenscroft damages and eventually removed the offending content.[4]
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References
- ↑ 'No surprise' in Da Vinci judgement
- ↑ Ravenscroft v Herbert (1980) RPC 193
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- ↑ Nick Freeman (2006) 'A decadent appetite for the lurid'?: James Herbert, The Spear and 'Nazi Gothic'. Gothic Studies Volume 8 (2). 80-97.
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